ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,369, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"SRS power control methods for channel estimation of reconfigurable intelligent surface link" was invented by Jinseok Choi (Austin, Texas), Yu Zhang (San Diego), Saeid Sahraei (San Diego), Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego), Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego), Tingfang Ji (San Diego) and Naga Bhushan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may determine a sounding reference signal transmission power of a user equipment (UE) and may communicate with the UE according to the determined so...